My Inescapable Thought Abyss

Is it a curse to be blessed with the power of making things exist? Or a cure? As the World Book Day is approaching, I’ve been giving a good amount of thought to how fiction affects us. For those of you who do not know, the World Book Day is on 23 rd of April. Fiction is defined as prose that describes imaginary events and people. We can also say that it is something that is invented or untrue. In other words, it is not real. Do you believe that?   I don’t. Fiction is realer to me than reality itself. People often consider fiction as an escape from reality. They forget it could be more than just an escape. I’ll tell you what fiction means to me. The stories we hear, see, read, they all manipulate our reality like a tale of its own. They change the way we see things. They bend our beliefs. And specifically for prose, open our mind to the endless possibilities. (I didn’t mention movies even though they’re fictional because in case of movies our ...

It doesn’t happen frequently but recently I had this conversation with one of my former classmates on how every innovation is meant to fulfil a need, how everything we humans do is to make things easier or better for us, how every action of ours has a reason necessitating it. Like, for example, we ever thought of water conservation because a) our survival was dependent on it and b) there was a slight chance that we might run out of clean water. Why would we ever think of it if there was no threat to us, if we were never going to run out of it? This need necessitated action to be taken. It set our minds thinking about all the possibilities and how to overcome this problem. Now, here, it can definitely be counter questioned that if every action has a reason behind it, essentially necessitating it, then why do we strive to explore beyond the boundaries of human reach?  To say with an example, what was the need to venture space explorations and why did we, the res...

We are strong in our own ways. Ways which we’re able to explain to ourselves, if not others. We know it and we recognise this strength within ourselves because when the need arises, we’re the ones who shall make use of it. But despite all this, we are vulnerable. But when? When we’re overcome with emotions like those of joy or fear, or both? Or when we’re exposed to things that we don’t know about? A world lying beyond our horizon? Beyond what we can think of? I’d say both. You ask why? Well first case scenario, when we’re overcome with emotions (any), we tend to not think before we act. Right? That way, our actions are determined by both the feeling and the level to which it has taken over us. Second case scenario, when we’re exposed to stuff we have no clue about, we are vulnerable because we don’t know how or what will it lead us to. We don’t know what the consequences might turn out to be. Now, until we master it, we will remain vulnerable because the wa...

What is the meaning of the word 'Wisdom'? Recently my nine (almost ten) year old sister asked me what is the meaning of the word ‘wisdom’? It took me sometime to figure out what meaning of wisdom would make sense to a fourth-grader. I mean, I knew the meaning all right, but somehow found it a little difficult to explain. Google says, the word ‘wisdom’ means the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgement; the quality of being wise. And wise means having or showing experience, knowledge and good judgement. This was okay but somehow felt difficult for a child to understand. I tried to simplify it in my way. I told her that it is a kind of knowledge that one gains from experiences. I simplified it further by saying that you grow wiser with time and you gain wisdom towards a particular thing or happening which you experienced. A person cannot be called wise by his intelligence only. It requires experience to become wise. I also made sure to check...

The thing I love about poems is that they mostly have hidden meanings between the lines. Things that only poets can see. Truths that only poets know. No decipherer can ever interpret the exact meaning of a poem. Not because he’s incapable, but only because poems are supposed to make actual sense to only those who write them. I haven’t read much poetry, in fact, you may say that I haven’t read any poetry at all if we’re talking about the famous poets. But poems really are extraordinary writings. They speak the language of truth. Spoken in such a deceiving manner that you don’t realize it at all, they might talk of feelings felt in the most realistic way possible. It isn’t laborious to sit down and read a poem, they’re that short. Rhyming in poems may sound like a thing for children’s poems but in reality, it piques everyone’s interest just as much. We often find ourselves relating to the things we read in poems. Some lines tend to cast such a spell on us that it’s difficult...

                                                                                      It’s unique. From what I know, it was introduced in John Green’s book, Paper towns in which the main protagonist, Margo Roth Spigelman believes in the concept of random capitalization. According to that, iT Is oKAy foR a sentTEnce tO Go LiKE this. Pretty cool right? It makes her stand out in the book because of her uncommon beliefs but how she justifies it seems just right. She thinks that the rules of capitalization are too unfair to the words in middle. Which is justified. Also, kind of extraordinary. Although, I must say, Microsoft Word wasn’t happy with my random capitalization, its red lines under the text. I believe that it is unique and actually good because w...

The annual whirr of excitement, as I just quoted it. In simple words, the excitement/fear/anxious feelings among all of us on entering our first board year, grade 10. There’s this whirr of excitement. It’s there every year, it’s there this time too. Although, I must say people are kind of reluctant and nobody was actually excited because as each year passed, the difficulty level, knowingly or unknowingly, shot up. But we were also keen on freeing ourselves from grade 9 so, I guess ultimately, it was inevitable. *Shrugs her shoulders* Every year we’re excited about new books, friends, hopefully more likeable and lenient teachers than last time, which makes up for most part of our worries before we begin our one year journey and we also hope that this one turns out to be better than the last one. Is this whirr going to last? Well, its annual actually, it comes, stays for some time and leaves. It lasts mostly for two to three weeks until the newness of everything sinks amongst...